Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore entire Windows OS using rsync (using rescue

On Dec 29, 2010, at 7:36 PM, Ryan Blake wrote:

Now that I finally got backups working as they should, I have ran into a problem. Right now we have a machine that has a great deal of problems (drivers missing, programs are installed that we do not know how they got there, etc.) and I was hoping to be able to restore using the rsync protocol.

I've not paid a lot of attentiont to this thread so pardon me if I'm repeating anything but..

I've never done restores using rsync, I always use tar.

briefly:

* boot the target system with some kind of rescue CD

* use BackupPC_tarCreate to create a stream of files in tar format from whichever backup you choose

* pipe that through netcat to your target system

* unpack the files on the target system by piping the output of netcat to tar

The problem with Windows of course is the registry. I've not tried a full restore of a Windows box; but I know it would not be easy. Even if you can rewrite the Windows bootloader and make it work, it will not necessarily have a consistent registry, so application installations may be broken anyway.

Carl Soderstrom

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore entire Windows OS using rsync (using rescue disk)?